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tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

being within society: "the proper excellence or virtue of man will be the habit or trained faculty that makes a man good and makes...

likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...

experience" (Owl Eyes). However, he "is best known for The Red Badge of Courage(1895), a realistic look at the Civil War" though h...

Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

been quoted as saying, "Probably nothing we had as children was quite so important to us as our summers in Cornwall...to hear the ...

a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...

they are poor because they have no luck. Paul, being a small child, thinks that luck is a tangible object to be found, obtained or...

them on their journey to death are, more often than not, lacking in any sympathy or emotion, just as the characters in the end of ...

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

In a paper consisting of four pages the corruption that had penetrated all aspectes of life during the Dark Ages are reflected in ...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...